On Tue 27 Feb 01, 1:01 PM, Micah Cowan said:
>
> Pete, vrfy is usually switched off. I note that it is on for gnu.org
> :)
kinda sorta. although, i would highly disagree with the word "usually".
i did a little experiment:
turned on turned off
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debian.org mother.com
most of *.ucdavis.edu mail.mp3.com
mail.sex.com mail.altavista.com
mail.orgy.com mail.msnbc.com
mail.linux.com networksolutions.com
lesbian.com mail.eff.org
hp.com mail.freshmeat.org
telnet.org
www.metalsludge.com
mail.sourceforget.net
your employer, micah[*]
[*] whaddya know. there's a p@neon.transmeta.com. can you introduce us? :)
we p's are tortured souls. i was thinking of starting a support group.
JOOC, does rset throw the mail out of the queue? or does the mail still get
delivered?
pete
> When you encounter MTAs with both expn and vrfy disallowed, the
> standard practice is to go through the entire mail-send process,
> through data, whereupon it will divulge whether the mail was
> accepted. Then use rset before quit.
>
> Micah